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It is percieved that the Xbox is about as welcome as a big wet fart in Japan, well ACCORDING to sales figures.
Yes these sales figures, saying, pretty much, that Xbox sells around 4,000 a week, GC around 15,000 and PS2 at 75,000.
Hmmm, 75000? A bit much? I think so.
Why? Well, while leafing though an old PS2 mag in my Bedroom(it had a MGS2 video with it) It came to a section based around Japan. It says, that during the Launch period for the PS2 in Japan, Sony managed to shift an unthinkable abount of 200, 000 in 3 weeks. Impressive you think.
Well if going buy current sales figures, sony sell 225,000 every 3 weeks, which has to be a lie. 75000 people buying a PS2, well over 2 years into its life, in the middle if the summer?!?
No, that must be wrong. Consoles sell the most at launch, due to hype and antisipation of owning the next cool bit of gaming hardware. You all know how Hyped the PS2 was, how on earth can the PS2 be outselling what it did at launch.
Japan loves games, but as a games market its now smaller than the US and all European countries combined. Its also shrinking but the European and US markets are rapidly expanding.
I wholy accept that the Xbox is doing poor in Japan, but I do question who on earth composes the figures and just how much Sony really is selling.
Yes these sales figures, saying, pretty much, that Xbox sells around 4,000 a week, GC around 15,000 and PS2 at 75,000.
Hmmm, 75000? A bit much? I think so.
Why? Well, while leafing though an old PS2 mag in my Bedroom(it had a MGS2 video with it) It came to a section based around Japan. It says, that during the Launch period for the PS2 in Japan, Sony managed to shift an unthinkable abount of 200, 000 in 3 weeks. Impressive you think.
Well if going buy current sales figures, sony sell 225,000 every 3 weeks, which has to be a lie. 75000 people buying a PS2, well over 2 years into its life, in the middle if the summer?!?
No, that must be wrong. Consoles sell the most at launch, due to hype and antisipation of owning the next cool bit of gaming hardware. You all know how Hyped the PS2 was, how on earth can the PS2 be outselling what it did at launch.
Japan loves games, but as a games market its now smaller than the US and all European countries combined. Its also shrinking but the European and US markets are rapidly expanding.
I wholy accept that the Xbox is doing poor in Japan, but I do question who on earth composes the figures and just how much Sony really is selling.
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But you still went ahead and quoted the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or†ega wrote:
> News: Japanese Hardware Sales For First Week September
>
>
> Sales of hardware for most of the consoles seem to be down. Nintendo,
> at this point, has pulled very far ahead of Xbox.
>
>
> 1. PlayStation 2: 53,200 (Yearly: 2,684,200)
>
> 2. Game Boy Advance: 31,600 (Yearly: 1,780,500)
>
> 3. GameCube: 12,400 (Yearly: 756,700)
>
> 4. PSOne: 3,400 (Yearly: 177,700)
>
> 5. Wonder Swan Crystal: 3,300 (Yearly: 82,000)
>
> 6. Xbox: 1,600 (Yearly: 245,100)
>
> 7. Wonder Swan Color: 840 (Yearly: 108,000)
>
> 8. Wonder Swan: 560 (Yearly: 570 (Yearly: 6,800)
>
> 9. Game Boy Color: 520 (Yearly: 72,000)
>
> 10. Dreamcast: 38 (Yearly: 17,300)
>
> wOrD
i couldn't give a damn about sales figures to be honest.
> News: Japanese Hardware Sales For First Week September
>
>
> Sales of hardware for most of the consoles seem to be down. Nintendo,
> at this point, has pulled very far ahead of Xbox.
>
>
> 1. PlayStation 2: 53,200 (Yearly: 2,684,200)
>
> 2. Game Boy Advance: 31,600 (Yearly: 1,780,500)
>
> 3. GameCube: 12,400 (Yearly: 756,700)
>
> 4. PSOne: 3,400 (Yearly: 177,700)
>
> 5. Wonder Swan Crystal: 3,300 (Yearly: 82,000)
>
> 6. Xbox: 1,600 (Yearly: 245,100)
>
> 7. Wonder Swan Color: 840 (Yearly: 108,000)
>
> 8. Wonder Swan: 560 (Yearly: 570 (Yearly: 6,800)
>
> 9. Game Boy Color: 520 (Yearly: 72,000)
>
> 10. Dreamcast: 38 (Yearly: 17,300)
>
> wOrD
i couldn't give a damn about sales figures to be honest.
News: Japanese Hardware Sales For First Week September
Sales of hardware for most of the consoles seem to be down. Nintendo, at this point, has pulled very far ahead of Xbox.
1. PlayStation 2: 53,200 (Yearly: 2,684,200)
2. Game Boy Advance: 31,600 (Yearly: 1,780,500)
3. GameCube: 12,400 (Yearly: 756,700)
4. PSOne: 3,400 (Yearly: 177,700)
5. Wonder Swan Crystal: 3,300 (Yearly: 82,000)
6. Xbox: 1,600 (Yearly: 245,100)
7. Wonder Swan Color: 840 (Yearly: 108,000)
8. Wonder Swan: 560 (Yearly: 570 (Yearly: 6,800)
9. Game Boy Color: 520 (Yearly: 72,000)
10. Dreamcast: 38 (Yearly: 17,300)
wOrD
Sales of hardware for most of the consoles seem to be down. Nintendo, at this point, has pulled very far ahead of Xbox.
1. PlayStation 2: 53,200 (Yearly: 2,684,200)
2. Game Boy Advance: 31,600 (Yearly: 1,780,500)
3. GameCube: 12,400 (Yearly: 756,700)
4. PSOne: 3,400 (Yearly: 177,700)
5. Wonder Swan Crystal: 3,300 (Yearly: 82,000)
6. Xbox: 1,600 (Yearly: 245,100)
7. Wonder Swan Color: 840 (Yearly: 108,000)
8. Wonder Swan: 560 (Yearly: 570 (Yearly: 6,800)
9. Game Boy Color: 520 (Yearly: 72,000)
10. Dreamcast: 38 (Yearly: 17,300)
wOrD
Whitestripes wrote:
> At the end of the day, does it really matter? No one is going out of
> business so the console(s) we all like ares still going to be around,
> and new games will still be made. And thats what matters.
whitestripes you taking drugs or something mate? but well done on your first un-biased post.
> At the end of the day, does it really matter? No one is going out of
> business so the console(s) we all like ares still going to be around,
> and new games will still be made. And thats what matters.
whitestripes you taking drugs or something mate? but well done on your first un-biased post.
Mantis wrote:
> It is percieved that the Xbox is about as welcome as a big wet fart
I LIKE big wat farts!
> It is percieved that the Xbox is about as welcome as a big wet fart
I LIKE big wat farts!
Or†ega wrote:
> These figures seem fine to me.
>
> 75,000 x 52 weeks in a year works out to around 3.9 million a year.
>
> Nothing wrong at all.
>
> Especially in a country where the population is over 100M
>
> http://www.jinjapan.org/today/society/society1.html
>
> As for sales figures being lower at launch? Well, thats usually down
> to limited stock at launch, and we all know how much the PS2 was in
> short supply when it launched here.
True True
> These figures seem fine to me.
>
> 75,000 x 52 weeks in a year works out to around 3.9 million a year.
>
> Nothing wrong at all.
>
> Especially in a country where the population is over 100M
>
> http://www.jinjapan.org/today/society/society1.html
>
> As for sales figures being lower at launch? Well, thats usually down
> to limited stock at launch, and we all know how much the PS2 was in
> short supply when it launched here.
True True
These figures seem fine to me.
75,000 x 52 weeks in a year works out to around 3.9 million a year.
Nothing wrong at all.
Especially in a country where the population is over 100M
http://www.jinjapan.org/today/society/society1.html
As for sales figures being lower at launch? Well, thats usually down to limited stock at launch, and we all know how much the PS2 was in short supply when it launched here.
75,000 x 52 weeks in a year works out to around 3.9 million a year.
Nothing wrong at all.
Especially in a country where the population is over 100M
http://www.jinjapan.org/today/society/society1.html
As for sales figures being lower at launch? Well, thats usually down to limited stock at launch, and we all know how much the PS2 was in short supply when it launched here.
At the end of the day, does it really matter? No one is going out of business so the console(s) we all like ares still going to be around, and new games will still be made. And thats what matters.
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